Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Volumen12Scottish Mountaineering Club., 1913 Includes reviews of mountaineering literature. |
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... Lichens . By Wm . Watson Midnight Wanderings in the Larig . By Ed . Backhouse Club Song . By J. G. Stott ( reprinted ) - The Bird Cliffs of St Abb's . By Wm . Douglas Umbrae Quaedam S.M.C. ( Poem ) Argyll's Bowling Green and Glen Croe ...
... Lichens . By Wm . Watson Midnight Wanderings in the Larig . By Ed . Backhouse Club Song . By J. G. Stott ( reprinted ) - The Bird Cliffs of St Abb's . By Wm . Douglas Umbrae Quaedam S.M.C. ( Poem ) Argyll's Bowling Green and Glen Croe ...
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... lichen smaller than , but similar to , that which makes the climbing on the Horungtinder of Norway so rough , especially on clothes . Parker was for tackling the biggest of them , but they were too cold and wet , and we contented ...
... lichen smaller than , but similar to , that which makes the climbing on the Horungtinder of Norway so rough , especially on clothes . Parker was for tackling the biggest of them , but they were too cold and wet , and we contented ...
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... lichens or the darksome ivies . The vast shell of a building looks strangely impressive standing there , mirrored in summer waters , with the great mountain looking down on it . It was built , it is said , by the lady in the Crusade ...
... lichens or the darksome ivies . The vast shell of a building looks strangely impressive standing there , mirrored in summer waters , with the great mountain looking down on it . It was built , it is said , by the lady in the Crusade ...
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... lichen , and ever above the clang of our hobnailers was " heard the water lapping on the crag . " One or two solitary cottages were passed , then at Cadderlie the hills retreated and the loch widened - for all that we could see that ...
... lichen , and ever above the clang of our hobnailers was " heard the water lapping on the crag . " One or two solitary cottages were passed , then at Cadderlie the hills retreated and the loch widened - for all that we could see that ...
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... , Of tuneful caves and playful waterfalls , Of mountains varying momently their crests . " -WORDSWORTH . " Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive . " LICHENS . BY REV . WM . WATSON . THE 266 The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal .
... , Of tuneful caves and playful waterfalls , Of mountains varying momently their crests . " -WORDSWORTH . " Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive . " LICHENS . BY REV . WM . WATSON . THE 266 The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal .
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Página 13 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Página 16 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 16 - Plantation is naturally the employment of a mind unburdened with care, and vacant to futurity, saturated with present good, and at leisure to derive gratification from the prospect of posterity. He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed.
Página 18 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 13 - ... like cracked glass, but with one edge laid perhaps half an inch over the other. Their windows do not move upon hinges, but are pushed up and drawn down in grooves, yet they are seldom accommodated with weights and pulleys.
Página 342 - DOUBLING and doubling with laborious walk, Who, that has gained at length the wishedfor Height, This brief this simple way-side call can slight. And rest not thankful...
Página 17 - English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now and then from an old lady.
Página 13 - ... head, and sometimes also his body, shook with a kind of motion like the effect of a palsy : he appeared to be frequently disturbed by cramps, or convulsive contractions ', of the nature of that distemper called St.
Página 72 - Reformation, when the innocent were involved with the guilty in the sufier•ings of the times, their house was supprest, and the temporalities granted to Hay, the abbot of Inchaffrey, who, abjuring his former tenets of religion, embraced the- cause of the reformers...
Página 14 - Had Loch Lomond been in a happier climate, it would have been the boast of wealth and vanity to own one of the little spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment. But as it is, the islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust him at his approach, when he finds, instead of soft lawns and shady thickets, nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness.